As we say goodbye to the first season of Junjou Romantica, here comes a new BL anime that you shouldn’t miss 
Antique Bakery アンティーク～西洋骨董洋菓子店～!
This series, depicting the lives of four men who work in a small bakery, is based on manga by Yoshinaga Fumi よしながふみ, the mangaka who gave us memorable and touching BL stories such as Gerard & Jacques ジェラールとジャック that has engaging plot and well-fleshed out characters. It won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for the shojo manga category. Slated for 12 episodes and featuring some of my favourite seiyuus, such as Miki Shinichirou and Miyano Mamoru as the leads… I’m a happy girl ^^
Official site: http://www.antique-anime.com/
Quick Summary (edited from ANN & Wiki)
The story revolves around four men who maintain a small yet elegant cafe known as “Antique”: Tachibana Keisuke/Keiichiro (橘 圭一郎), Ono Yuusuke (小野 裕介), Kanda Eiji (神田 えいじ) and Kobayakawa Chikage (小早川 千影).
Tachibana is the grandson of a rich businessman and has just resigned from a top firm to manage his own bakery. Ono is a famous pastry chef and an infamous “devilish homosexual” who is irresistibly attractive to all men except Tachibana. He had confessed his love for Tachibana when they were in high school but was harshly rejected. Eiji is a retired young boxer who loves pastries. He becomes Ono’s apprentice and kitchen helper. Chikage is Tachibana’s childhood friend who is sent by Tachibana’s family to watch over him.
Comments:
The first episode was broadcast on 03 July 2008 and whee~ the subs are out! XD It is VERY entertaining. The anime has a good balance of human drama and humour, thanks to the good plot. Great performances by the seiyuus. Mikishin is wonderful as the gay pastry chef! Good chemistry with the totally straight Tachibana (Fujiwara Keiji). I laughed out loud at certain points and the “chibis” true to Yoshinaga-sensei’s unique style are really different and refreshing.
Realistic looking pastries that gave me sweet cravings. It has a pretty good soundtrack too. The opening and ending songs are performed by Chemistry ^^ The animation wasn’t too bad cos the people actually moved lol~ and facial expressions are nicely done too. So yeah. ^^)b
The only gripe I had is with the environment. They used 3D to create all the surroundings and it was quite jarring to my eyes. Well, cos everything look too perfect and clean. Corners of doors and buildings too sharp, sofas that don’t dent or sink in when you sit on them *sweatdrop* Like toy blocks rather than a living space but I guess most people wouldn’t be bothered by it. Fortunately it doesn’t affect the enjoyment of the anime too much. o_O”
Overall, a very enjoyable start and good introduction to all the main characters in episode one. Looking forward to more! 
Director: Yoshiaki Okumura
Main Cast:
Fujiwara Keiji 藤原 啓治 as Tachibana Keiichiro
Miki Shinichiro 三木 眞一郎 as Ono Yuusuke
Eiji Hanawa 英司花輪 as Kobayakawa Chikage
Miyano Mamoru 宮野真守 as Kanda Eiji
Music: Takefumi Haketa
Related post: Antique Bakery episodes compilation
Yea, usually the bill goes like “PURCHASE (item code) price” no such things as ‘PURCHASE BL/YAOI” kekeke~
So..who shop more? you or your brother? XD
I want to have my own CC but it’s no urgent. I want CC with discount on Starbucks Ha-ha!
Well..Shiki figurine sale is truly tempting. Can’t really blame yourself on tht too
I hope AB DVD will come with extra feature regarding the cakes.
YAYAYA XD If not…. *dies* dunno where to hide.
I’m a spendthrift and my brother is a saver cum planner. He has always been careful with $ and he has savings! I almost never do
His spending habits and pattern is quite typically male. He may not buy and shop often but when he does buy something (big boys toys like car, car accessories… IT gadgets, so I think it probably works out to be that he spends more in monetary terms than I do.
I’m not sure if I want my own CC… sure no control XD At least a supp card has a lower credit limit to stop me.
Hehe.. yeah! I wonder what they’ll be too. ^^ On a side note, I read somewhere that the US licensed AB manga has scratch and sniff stickers that give off aroma of the pastries. That is rather innovative.
Interesting but true, my bro is oso like tht (have killer-farts too)
So AB manga is US-licensed huh? Tht’s great, but i think i prefer waiting for the DVD.
I really want to own all the first press DVD so saving $$$ is crucial.
That’s weird, my supplementary card (not secondary LOL) have same limit with the main card.
i checked with the CC customer service and they told me the limit is just as much as the main card.
Pretty dangerous…
I have my CC after marriage, my parent don’t allow me to have CC, they don’t trust me Ha Ha
Most guys I know are like this. So far I only know one guy who doesn’t go for those big boys toys.
Yep yep… the DVD is available for pre-order on Animate already but so far not much info. Not even on the official website. I’ll like to know more before placing order keke.
I think probably banks have different credit card policies ^^ I think it is a good thing to have limit
I had one after I started working. At that time, there wasn’t online shopping so I have never spent more than a few hundred bucks on it every month.
*chanting* I will practice better self-control…